顱內插入短刀4年竟正常生活

Crooks robbed and stabbed 37-year-old Mr Li when he was working as a taxi driver. The knife they used had snapped at the handle and the blade was left embedded – and hidden – between his skull and ear.

37歲的李先生曾經是一名出租車司機，之前被一夥歹徒搶劫並刺傷了，歹徒當時用的刀從刀柄處斷掉，留在了他的腦部，藏於他的頭骨和耳朵之間。

Mr Li had no idea that it was there but had complained about splitting headaches for years before visiting specialist medics at the Yuxi People’s Hospital in Yunnan province, south west China.

李先生完全沒有發覺它的存在，一直抱怨常年頭痛，後來去了中國西南部的雲南省玉溪人民醫院就醫。

A spokesman for the hospital said: ‘He came to us with a long history of severe head pain and unexplained bleeding from his ears and mouth. As soon as we scanned him it was obvious what was wrong.

醫院的一位發言人說：“他來的時候說長期劇烈頭痛，耳朵和口腔會流血，我們一掃描就發現問題了。”

‘What is astonishing is that is was missed four years ago and that he has survived all this time with it in his head. We've seen needles and small objects buried in a skull but never something this size.’

Luo Zhiwei, head of the surgical department at the hospital, had a stab at summing it all up and said that the fact that Mr Li survived and lived a relatively normal life for all this time with the knife buried in his head was a medical miracle.

“這刀在他頭部四年他還活着真讓人驚奇。以前看過有針啊或者其他的小東西埋進頭骨，但是這麼大的東西從來沒見過。”

醫院外科主任羅志偉醫生說，李先生頭部藏了把刀在這麼長時間還一直過着相對正常的生活，算得上是醫學奇蹟了。